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Ghost towns in Canada

Canada has 48 ghost towns on Detourmap — ghost towns, abandoned settlements and industry left to rot. The best known is Dartmouth. All of them are below.

Ghost towns
48
Of archaeological
48 of 142
Little known
38 of 48
Oldest
Port-Royal (Acadia) 1629

Questions about this page

How many ghost towns are there in Canada?

48 on this map, out of 142 archaeological & historic sites in Canada. That is what Wikidata records with coordinates, a photograph and a Wikipedia article, so it is a floor rather than a census.

What is the best known ghost town in Canada?

Dartmouth. Urban community and former city in the Halifax Regional Municipality, Nova Scotia, Canada.

Which ghost towns in Canada are the least visited?

38 of the 48 rank as little known — a Wikipedia article in only a handful of languages. They sit at the bottom of the ranked list below.

Where does this information come from?

Every place is drawn from Wikidata (CC0), with photographs from Wikimedia Commons and a link to its English Wikipedia article. Selection is deterministic: a place is here because Wikidata files it under one of the classes this atlas carries and it has coordinates, a photo and an article. Nothing is written or chosen by an AI, and the ranking is simply how many Wikipedia language editions cover a place.

Ghost towns elsewhere

United States547 Czech Republic377 Spain182 United Kingdom46 Germany44 Israel32 Russia16 Ukraine15 Australia13 North Macedonia13 Poland13 Greece10

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